In the previous life, she was fed to dogs by her elder sister, and she was reborn to seek revenge

Although there were not many people in the Pingnan Marquis's mansion, he only had two concubines, and each of them only gave birth to one child. The Pingnan Marquis only had three children: Lin Qingyuan, Lin Qingyao, and Lin Qingye.

However, the Marquis's mansion has been living an extremely luxurious life since the time when the old Marquis Pingnan came to power. The old Marquis Pingnan has always loved fruit fragrance and disliked ordinary incense. In the middle of his room, there is a large vat more than one meter long placed all year round.

And that big jar was no ordinary item either. It was made by a kiln art master from the previous dynasty. The master had been firing kilns all his life, and he would destroy any work he was not satisfied with without hesitation, even if someone offered a large sum of money to buy it.

After the master's death, he left behind less than ten works, and one of them is the large vat in the old lady's hall, which was purchased by the old Marquis of Pingnan at a high price during his lifetime.

This large jar is filled with fresh fruits all year round, and these fruits are only used to fumigate the room. They are changed every two days and the replaced fruits are directly discarded and never eaten.

After the death of the old Marquis Pingnan, this custom was retained by the old lady. There were ten old women and twenty maids serving her personally. This number was much more than that of ordinary concubines in the palace.

The old lady loved taking baths and she took one every day. Every time she took a bath, she needed five maids and ten servants to serve her. She used fresh milk to bathe every time because she firmly believed that bathing with fresh milk could keep the skin young and tender. Every time she took a bath, she needed two buckets of fresh milk, one for washing and one for soaking. Finally, the maids would wipe her body with wet silk.

There are also some requirements for wetting the silk. The silk cannot be directly wetted with water, nor can it be directly put into water. Four maids are needed to flatten a corner of a large piece of silk, drink a sip of jasmine tea, and then spray water mist from their mouths. Only in this way will the silk have the fragrance of jasmine.

There are also some requirements for spraying water. The water mist must be fine enough to wet the silk evenly, but not so wet that water can be wrung out, and it must not get stained with saliva in the mouth. All of these require maids to be trained from a young age.

Although Shen and Lin Qingyao are not as extravagant as the old lady, they are not easy to deal with.

Shen had no other hobbies except listening to operas. She set up a courtyard in the mansion and built a stage. There were different opera troupes in the mansion all year round, and she would change them when she got tired of them.

They were also generous in giving tips to the opera troupe. When the show was exciting, they would throw handfuls of golden melon seeds onto the stage. One golden melon seed was enough to cover the expenses of an ordinary person for half a year.

Lin Qingyao's favorite things to do on weekdays were making clothes and buying jewelry. Whenever there was any new jewelry style coming out in the palace, she would immediately go find someone to make it for her. Clothes were often worn once and then thrown away. She would never wear the same piece of clothing a second time, and she would never give it away or sell it, because she felt that no one else was worthy of wearing her clothes, so Lin Qingyao would order people to destroy all the clothes she had worn.

Although Aunt Liu of the Marquis' Mansion is much more low-key, she has been secretly taking the mansion's money to lend out and to support her uncle Xue Ding. The Xue family's revival is entirely due to Aunt Liu's credit.

Lin Qingyuan, the son of Aunt Liu, is the only normal person in this marquis's mansion. Although he is mediocre in talent, he is not a dandy. He just grew up in the care of Aunt Liu and has a domineering personality and a bit of the temper of a young master.

In the past, the old Marquis of Pingnan was deeply loved by the late emperor and received many rewards. He also left behind a huge fortune to the marquisate. However, after the old Marquis of Pingnan died, although the Pingnan Marquisate fell into decline, it still followed the previous extravagant lifestyle, and the huge fortune had long been squandered.

Now, the only income of the Marquis' Mansion is the salary of Marquis Pingnan. That salary is only enough to cover the daily expenses of the Marquis' Mansion and is completely unable to support the expenses of other people in the mansion.

So when the old lady learned that Nan Mingyu had brought so much dowry into the mansion, she immediately found a reason to give the power of managing the household, which was originally in the hands of Shen, to Nan Mingyu.

Originally, before his death, the old Marquis of Pingnan arranged a marriage for Lin Shan. The girl was the daughter of a second-rank military commander. The general had a great reputation and was a good match for the marquis at that time.

As soon as the old Marquis of Pingnan died, the old lady immediately cancelled the engagement and arranged for Lin Shan to marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman at the time, who is now the mistress of the Marquis' Mansion, Shen.

Who would have thought that the Shen family, the back door, would fall into decline. Although Shen also brought a lot of dowry at that time, it could not afford such expenses.

So in order to ensure her own extravagant life, the old lady immediately started to think about Nan Mingyu's dowry after learning about her huge dowry.

Over the years, Nan Mingyu has lived up to the old lady's expectations and has been secretly using her dowry to support the Marquis' Mansion. Nan Mingyu's mother not only left behind a large amount of jewelry and silver, but also a lot of shop businesses, so it has not been difficult for Nan Mingyu to support the Marquis' Mansion over the years, and she has used the money earned from the shop business to make up for it.

Although Shen spent Nan Mingyu's money every day, she always looked for opportunities to suppress Nan Mingyu, openly or secretly, and always reminded her to remember her status as a concubine and her daughter's status as a concubine.

All their daily food, clothing and other expenses must be based on the share given to concubines and illegitimate children, and they must not exceed that.

So for the sake of peace in her mansion, Nan Mingyu lived a tight life with her daughter Lin Qingye, even though she was so rich. Lin Qingye had been dressed simply since she was young, and the only decent pieces of jewelry she had were given to her by the Empress Dowager when she entered the palace as a child. Lin Qingye had always been served by only two maids, Cuixi and Cuiyun.

As for the fact that Nan Mingyu was rich, it was after Lin Qing fell in love with the third prince in her previous life that her mother told her about it after learning of her feelings. In order to ensure that she could marry into the third prince's mansion smoothly, she also handed over some of the shops under her name to her.

Finally, after she married into the Third Prince's mansion as a concubine, she gave all her belongings to Lin Qingye as a dowry, which is why she was no longer of any use and was framed by Shen for adultery and beaten to death.

At this moment, Lin Qing was also looking at the group of people in the room. Everything they were wearing belonged to her mother, but they could still righteously accuse her of wearing a new dress. Listening to their high-sounding reasons, she couldn't help but find it funny. People could really be so shameless.

Just as Nan Mingyu was about to kneel down and admit her fault, she was grabbed by Lin Qingye who was standing beside her. Lin Qingye spoke first, "Since my aunt is so ungrateful, please ask Grandmother to take back my aunt's power as the head of the family!"

Everyone present was stunned when these words were spoken. They had not expected that Lin Qing would actually say such a thing. Nan Mingyu, a concubine, could become the head of the Pingnan Marquis's Mansion. What an honor it was to say it out loud. If she had not used her dowry to subsidize the expenses of the Pingnan Marquis's Mansion, it would not have been her turn as a concubine to be the head of the household.